Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers celebrates his 61-yard touchdown Hail Mary pass to end the game against the Lions on Thursday at Ford Field in Detroit.(Photo: Diane Weiss, Detroit Free Press)

If one play can sum up all the frustration and pain of being a Lions’ fan.

If one play can kill a season, smothering out any hope of the playoffs, slim as it might have been.

If one play can leave you stunned and wanting to throw up.

This was it. The epitome of failure and heart-stomping defeat.

A 60-minute win that turned into a loss on an extra, untimed play.

Un-freakin’ believable.

There was no time on the clock when Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers dropped back to pass. Six Lions defensive backs crowded into the back of the end zone, leaving the front as open as an all-night, drive-thru restaurant.

Rodgers fired the ball high into the air, so high it looked like it was going to pass through the rafters in Ford Field.

And at the front of the end zone, Green Bay tight end Richard Rodgers stood all alone, wide open, a guy who stands 6-feet-4 and was a former college basketball player.

The ball hung in the air so long that Rodgers had time to position himself. “Before I jumped, I turned to make sure I was in the end zone,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Lions defenders apparently fell asleep.

Richard Rodgers came down with the ball for a 61-yard touchdown – of course he did, this is the essence of Lions’ football -- as the Packers pulled out a miraculous, unbelievable, heart-crushing 27-23 victory over the Lions.

“I was actually really surprised no one hit my arms or anything,” Richard Rodgers said. “I just kind of caught it clean and went to the ground in the end zone.”

Hmm. If that quote doesn’t make you sick to your stomach, you are not a Lions’ fan. Or maybe, you are a recovering Lions' fan, having sworn them off once and for all, oh, late Thursday night.

Either way, the play came off so easy, it looked like the Packers had practiced it before the game.

And here’s the crazy part: They actually did.

Before the game, Aaron Rodgers was messing around, lofting high passes into the end zone to Richard Rodgers.

“Usually, it doesn’t go that high in practice,” Richard Rodgers said. “But before the game, he was throwing it that high. I dropped the first one and caught the next two.”

Seriously. They practiced it in warm-ups.

For the first time ever. Perfecting a miracle.

Of course, they did.

“It was pretty ironic,” Richard Rodgers said. “It was pretty weird. We were just messing around. He just threw three of them, really high up to the rafters.”

Matthew Stafford saw the play unfold on the video screen on the scoreboard. He said he felt “Nothing. I was probably in shock.”

Everybody was in shock.

Except for those Lions defensive backs. They were still stuck in the back of the end zone.

“This one, obviously, ranks up there as one of the greatest joys on the field that we’ve had together as a team and personally,” Aaron Rodgers said.

Now, in the wake of this stunning loss, there are all kinds of questions for the Lions.